Workers World Jan. 27, 2000: UNITA losing Angola war<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../ui/styles/top.css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../ui/script/ie5.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.workers.org/ui/script/DropDownMenuX.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> window.onload = function() { var ddmx = new DropDownMenuX("menu1"); ddmx.type = "horizontal"; ddmx.delay.show = 0; ddmx.delay.hide = 400; ddmx.position.level1.top = 0; ddmx.position.level1.left = 0; ddmx.position.levelX.top = 0; ddmx.position.levelX.left = 0; ddmx.fixIeSelectBoxBug = true; ddmx.zIndex.visible = 500; ddmx.zIndex.hidden = -1; ddmx.init(); } </script> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#483d8b" vlink="#2f4f4f" alink="#a52a2a">  <table width="65%" border="0" cellpadding="10" align="center"> <tr> <td height="911" align="left" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <a href="http://www.workers.org/"><img src="../../images/wwlogo.png" alt="Workers.org" width="600" height="58" border="0" /></a></td> </tr> </table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="menu1" class="ddmx"> <tr> <td> <a class="item1" href="http://www.workers.org/">Home</a></td> <td> <a class="item1" href="javascript:void(0)">Books</a> <div class="section"> <a class="item2" href="http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/index.html">Selected works of Sam Marcy</a> <a class="item2" href="http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sambol/index.htm">Bolsheviks and War</a> <a class="item2" href="http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/samtech/index.htm">High Tech, Low Pay</a> <a class="item2" href="http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/samsoc/index.htm">Soviet Socialism: Utopian or Scientific</a> <a class="item2" href="http://www.workers.org/indonesia/index.html">Indonesia 1965</a> <a class="item2" href="http://www.workers.org/cm/empire.html">Expanding Empire</a> </div></td> <td><a class="item1" href="javascript:void(0)">Subscribe</a> <div class="section"><a class="item2" href="http://www.workers.org/email.php">Email list</a> <a class="item2" href="http://www.workers.org/orders/index.php">Print edition</a> </div></td> <td> <a class="item1" href="http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php">Donate </a></td> <td> <a class="item3" href="http://www.workers.org/mo/index.html">Noticias en Español</a> </td> </tr> </table> <print> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="3"><tr> <td width="19%" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#E2E2E2"> <p class="caption">Support<br /> anti-war,<br /> anti-racist<br /> news </p> <p class="caption"><a href="http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php">:: Donate now ::</a></p> <hr /> <p class="caption"><print><a href="http://www.workers.org/cgi-bin/mailww/mailww.cgi"><img src="http://www.workers.org/graphics/email.gif" width="21" height="20" border="0" alt="Email this article" />Email this article</a> </print></p> <p class="caption"><print><a href="/print.php"><img src="http://www.workers.org/graphics/printer.gif" width="21" height="20" border="0" alt="Print this page" />Printable page</a></print></p> <hr /> <p class="caption"><a href="mailto:letters@workers.org">Email the editor</a></p> <form method="get" action="http://www.workers.org/cgi-bin/search/search.pl"> <input name="Terms" id="fdse_TermsEx" size="12" maxlength="255" class="email" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" style="align: center; padding: 1px 2px 1px 2px; background: #DCDCDC; color: darkslategray; font-size: 9px; border: solid #696969 1px;" /> </form> <p class="caption"> </p></td> <td width="81%"> <blockquote> <div align="right" class="translate"><a href="http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/ref.php?from=en" title="click here to translate this page into any language, using the Fagan Finder Translation Wizard" target="new" hreflang="en">Translate this page</a></div>  <h4><u>Namibia cooperates to close border</u></h4> <h1>Imperialist puppet UNITA losing Angola war</h1> <P><B>By G. Dunkel</B></P> <P>All signs point to the success of Angola's army (FAA) over UNITA's war machine.</P><P>The FAA seized Jamba in late December. UNITA had controlled that city ever since apartheid South Africa invaded in 1975 and turned over what it conquered to its ally UNITA. </P><P>Even areas of Angola close to the Zambian border--which UNITA has controlled since the early 1970s when it was cooperating with the Portuguese colonial authorities--have fallen to the FAA.</P><P>The Angolan and Namibian armies are cooperating in closing the southern border of Angola to UNITA, which had backed a secessionist movement on the Namibian side of the border. The Namibian armed forces have crossed their northern border into southern Angola in hot pursuit of suspected UNITA rebels operating on both sides of the border.</P><P>Over the New Year weekend, the FAA seized 100 tons of UNITA arms hidden around Andulo, a city in central Angola, long held by UNITA. According to FAA Gen. Jorge Barros Ngutu, these were sophisticated weapons that would have allowed UNITA to conduct chemical warfare against the Angolan government. (Angop-Angolan Press Agency, Jan. 5)</P><P>According to a report in The Post of Zambia (Dec. 30), UNITA is pleading "for peace talks with the ruling MPLA government." UNITA feels that "the talks should be serious and go further than all the stages reached in previous engagements."</P><P>As Angola's military successes have become clearer, peace monitors, non-governmental aid agencies, United Nations committees, foreign-policy institutes in Washington and Johannesburg, and the media have started expressing concern about the war.</P><P>These sources write of "the war weariness of the Angolan people," or "their longstanding suffering." They claim that "the idea of peace through a full military victory over UNITA is also illusory." </P><P>These same sources said little or nothing two years ago when UNITA restarted the civil war because it had lost the election.</P><P>Some analysts even go so far as claiming that the support Angola and Namibia give President Laurent Kabila in the Congo, along with their cooperation in crushing UNITA, is destabilizing southern Africa.</P><P>However, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, in a Jan. 5 meeting with a delegation of senior Angolan officials, said his government was going to cut any cooperation between South African politicians and businesses and UNITA. (Angop, Jan 11.)</P><P>What has really been destabilizing and destructive in Angola for the past 30 years has been how first Portuguese and then U.S. imperialism used UNITA to thwart the aspirations of the Angolan people and destroy their livelihood. By destroying UNITA as a military force, the Angolan people will win major relief from imperialist intervention.</P>  <p>This article is copyright under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.   <br /> Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011<br> Email: <a href="MAILTO:ww@workers.org">ww@workers.org</a><br> Subscribe <a href="MAILTO:wwnews-subscribe@workersworld.net">wwnews-subscribe@workersworld.net</a><br> Support independent news <a href="http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php">http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php</a>)  </p> <p class="caption"><a href="http://www.workers.org/">HOME</a> :: <a href="http://www.workers.org/us/">U.S. NEWS</a> :: <a href="http://www.workers.org/world/">WORLD NEWS</a> :: <a href="http://www.workers.org/editorials/">EDITORIALS</a> :: <a href="http://www.workers.org/orders/">SUBSCRIBE</a> :: <a href="http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php">DONATE</a></p> </blockquote> </body> </html>